Another Delta Air Lines flight attendant has gone rogue, wearing an unauthorized Palestinian flag pin in uniform on a domestic flight. Just what was he hoping to accomplish?
Delta Flight Attendant Wears Palestinian Flag Pin…
A flight attendant placed a Palestinian flag pin on his uniform on Delta flight 1245 from Boston (BOS) to West Palm Beach (PBI) on Friday, July 5, 2024. Delta’s uniform policy clearly prohibits such pins that “convey a message or advocate a position or cause other than Delta-sponsored programs or initiatives.” In the midst of a war between Hamas and Israel, such a flag pin is certainly not sponsored by Delta.
Flight details @Delta pic.twitter.com/n9MRJ0VtB2
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) July 6, 2024
I’m not going to accuse him of hating Jews, denying the right of Israel to exist, supporting Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, or even rejecting the right of Israel to defend itself. First, because I don’t know the man and he may simply feel bad for all the civilian carnage in Gaza (a sad reality of every war). Second, because the pin could just signify he speaks Arabic. So for purposes of our discussion, let’s just assume that he’s not a bigot (but probably not so bright if he thinks “love is love” in the West Bank or tolerance is embraced in Gaza).
It. Doesn’t. Matter.
The war is divisive and reasonable people can come to different conclusions on what policy is proper (I’m still of the opinion that Israel has an absolute right to defend itself no matter the damage to the other side). Reasonable people can conclude that Israel has been too aggressive or that the collateral damage to civilians in Gaza cannot justify the Israeli offensive.
Whatever your opinion, I think we can all agree this is an extremely hot-button issue. And it is precisely for this reason that flight attendants or others in customer-facing positions (especially on an airplane!) should not wear Israeli or Palestinian pins right now (though once again, I think equating the two sides is problematic and I would proudly wear an Israeli flag pin today…). View From The Wing is also correct that this represents asymmetric speech. That’s why flight attendants should wear no pins at all.
JetBlue explicitly (and superfluously, since they were never authorized in the first place) banned such pins after a ridiculous incident last month in which a Jewish passenger was (temporarily) banned after he complained about a flight attendant’s Palestinian flag pin.
In such a contentious war as this, it is not appropriate to wear a flag pin supporting the side that murdered 1,189 in an act of despicable haram. Full stop.
If you don’t agree, keep burying your head in the sand, but don’t rile people up because they have every right to be upset when you wear a flag pin like that.
Shame on the flight attendant, even if his intentions were pure. He should not be fired if he has an otherwise unblemished service record, but this should be his one and only warning…
The hypocrisy about expressing political views in a politically neutral forum when you are doing the same with your pro Israel bias.
My blog ≠ an employee flouting company policy in a confined metal tube.
Come on now…
DL employees are allowed to wear pins. He didn’t violate any company policy. Free Palestine.
No, they are not. I referenced the uniform policy. You’re entitled to your opinon, but not to make up facts.
Delta has publicly stated that they did not break the uniform policy which allowed for wearing national flags:
“Neither flight attendant has been fired for wearing the pins, as both complied with Delta uniform guidelines, the airline said, adding: “We’re in touch with the flight attendants to offer support.”
“However … Delta is shifting its pin allowance policy effective July 15. Beginning then, only U.S. flags will be permitted to be worn on uniforms,” the company said. “Previously, pins representing countries/nationalities of the world had been permitted.”
“We are taking this step to help ensure a safe, comfortable and welcoming environment for all,” Delta said. “We are proud of our diverse base of employees and customers and the foundation of our brand, which is to connect the world and provide a premium experience.””
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/delta-apologizes-official-x-account-says-d-terrified-employees-palesti-rcna161401
Yes, I’ll be following up with how Delta is trying to brown-nose its DTW constituency by reinterpreting its rules like an activist Supreme Court justice. It is also scared of AFA organizers…
Ryley, enough with your lies. Free what exactly ?
THE WORLD IS FED UP OF SO CALLED PALESTINIANS AND THEIR LIES !
SAVAGES.
EVEN THE ARABS DO NOT WANT THEM, AND WHO’D WANT THE BARBARIANS OF GAZA . YOU ARE NOW PAYING FOR 7TH OCTOBER.
what have the so called palestinians done for humanity. You cunningly receive billions of donation money and what do you do with it ? You slaughter human beings . You slaughter your own daughters in the name of honor killings.
What Savages. What a horroble people.
Free Palestine. As humans with morals we need to take a stand against this genocide.
What morals do you subscribe to? You’re good with rape and murder?
Dear Matthew
Please add to your bio “bigot” and “liar”.
According to CNN reporting, “A Delta spokesperson said the flight attendants pictured were compliant with the company’s current uniform guidelines and the company has contacted them to offer support. Both flight attendants remain employed by the company, the spokesperson said.”
It’s unbelievable that you report Delta’s most recent statement in a separate blog yet you leave up this one.
I don’t support Delta cowering in fear…sort of your like your father, Elian.
How in the world have you come up with an analogy between this FA and a guy running his own blog? This is not a rhetorical question, I’m genuinely interested in an answer.
Melia, I suggest a trip to the local law library. Employers have the right to say no advocacy pins. Matthew has the right to write whatever he pleases. Just because Matthew understands the reality of the middle and knows Israel is in the right. Sorry you just don’t get it,.
They’re just looking for an excuse to sue!
He violates the policy. Fact! End of discussion.
Your response indicates far deeper issues. Fact.
About the IQ level I expected from Melina.
Trash analysis by a trash pro-genocide blog.
“Delta’s uniform policy clearly prohibits such pins that “convey a message or advocate a position or cause other than Delta-sponsored programs or initiatives.” Easy, get him fired for not following his employer policy.
Maybe he’s just stupid. No need to fire him if this is his first offense.
Sorry, there is no stupidity here. He knew what he was doing. Unless he is a Palestine himself, he should not be wearing other people’s flags.
@Santastico … Asian airline FAs wear the flags of their home nations for language reasons .
For example , the Philippine flag for “Tagalong” language .
I feel it basically boils down to this – He is working on company time. Delta Airlines has not taken a stand on either side of this issue. Since this flight attendant represents the company on his working hours, he should not be wearing this pin. If he wears it on his “off time”, that is his business. It is just like if he were to wear a red MAGA hat at work, some passengers might find it offensive. But if he wore such a hat on non working hours, that is his business.
@John … That’s an idea . Wear a maga hat whilst working at the New York Times or CNN ? How long would he last in those jobs ?
None of that seems to matter anymore. Airlines consider they have enough problems. He/She is looking for a way to sue.
@Matthew … Two offenses : the pin and the earring .
We are about as far from the classy days of flying as Jupiter is from the Sun. I’d be a tyrant if I owned the airline. Don’t get it that the govt can tell a private company what it’s policies should be.
If this was an Israeli flag pin would you be blasting this story out?
Yes, I probably would (for the clicks if nothing else).
But it still would not have been appropriate to break Delta’s uniform policy, even with a flag I support.
I wear an Israel flag , and no one has ever uttered a peep .
Stay away from Columbia Univ…
@Matthew … +1 . LOL .
I met two Jewish students from Columbia U. a couple of months ago , and we had a good laugh together about the Moron demonstrators . They had pro-Israel shirts in Hawaii , and many people gave them a thumbs-up . They were fit and strong , they said no one messed with them at Columbia U.
I told them about how Moshe Dayan went to Vietnam as a journalist , and humped along with the GIs in the jungle for a week or so . They hasn’t known that .
About 1966 or thereabouts .
Did you wear an Israeli flag pin while working as a flight attendant?
We already know that YOU would be blasting a flight attendant wearing an Israeli pin.
But it’s easy to defend the one wearing the Palestinian pin, because that’s the trendy thing to do among the Left these days.
Where I come down on this is why is the Israeli flag being worn?
If it is on a flight to Israel to indicate that the specific Flight Attendant speaks Hebrew, than it would be appropriate, but if it is a flight from BOS-PBI, than wearing an Israeli flag would inappropriate.
IMHO, it does not matter if it is a Flight Attendant, a Fire Fighter, a Businessperson or a Doctor, when WORKING, it is inappropriate to share ones personal beliefs in public.
You’re just as brainwashed as those Germans on your cruise hating on Jews. I don’t care if you’re Jewish your religion should fog your judgement about what is happening between Israel/palestine. Don’t pretend like this happened on October 6
How should Israel have responded to the October 7th (not 6th) attacks?
Matt’s only concern with gay liberation or gay rights seems to be solely distilled through the lens of justifying mass slaughter of people (Palestinians or Arabs in general) he perceives as uniformly homophobic. It’s racist, bigoted, and wrong – human rights are not transactional. For someone who’s traveled so much, it’s sad how much of a bubble Matt seems to live in, maybe that’s by choice, or maybe his non-nuanced view if solely influenced by misappropriated German guilt. Really pathetic to read.
You people are so naive. While we can take the already INFLATED casualty counts reported by the Hamas-led health ministry with a grain of salt, no matter what numbers you come up with would never have been a concern if Hamas hadn’t started this war to begin with.
Hamas slaughtered 1200 civilians in cold blood and kidnapped over 200 more on October 7th last year. That’s what prompted Israel to retaliate. And they’re mission is to rescue the hostages and wipe out the Hamas threat once and for all.
If Hamas really cared about the Palestinian civilians so much, they’d release all of the hostages and surrender. Then put the ball in Israel’s table to agree on a ceasefire.
Nothing like good a ‘you people’ comment to set the tone.
Israel with accomplish neither of it’s goal btw, even it’s own general admit this, without a durable ceasefire. This has been clear for a long time. Gaza has been under Israeli siege for decades. Palestinians have lived under military rule in Gaza and the West Bank for 75 years. Just because *you* started paying attention on October 7 doesn’t change the objective reality that Israel seeks to control or expel Palestinians from the land, as their Zionist ideology dictates. Matt’s voice serves the broader goal of Palestinian erasure, in whatever small sad way he can.
Curious if you care so much when Muslims and Arabs are doing the slaughtering?
Care to show a selection of posts decrying Iran, Sudan, Syria, etc.?
Or is it no Jews, no news.
Btw if the greatest honor in Islam is dying a martyr, aren’t they technically doing them a favor?
Btw, don’t bullshit me. I’ve read the Quran.
@ET: My view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is quite nuanced and I’ve visited the West Bank on several trips and recognize the diversity of opinion among the people there concerning a wide range of issues. It’s a very complex situation and what Israel has done in the West Bank (new settlements) is something I condemn.
But…the only blood in the Gaza war is on the hands of Hamas and Iran.
Except they are 100% homophobic and would 100% kill all gays if allowed (like they do in Iran, Saudi Arabia, so-called “Palestine” etc.). So yeah, it’s just reality. We get it – you hate the Jews, gay people and women (learn about shariah law, will you?) and you’re cool with paedophilia. Don’t need to blast it so loud.
Hey Bernardo, congrats on your comment having no material impact on Gaza being converted to a rock quarry.
DL does seem to be pretty strict in terms of their FA behavior. I mentioned my DL159 flight in J from DTW-ICN a couple years ago where these FAs were harassing an elderly lady and daughter for no reason and harassing those who tried standing up for them including me. On my “apology flight” DL offered on DL158 to me, I was chatting with the purser for that flight and he said that they were “no longer in the system.”
Point is, this is a first time offense that was just with some symbolism so people need to relax on calls for termination regardless of which side they stand on the issue. Conversely, if there are company policies, they must be followed by the employees and the company needs to reiterate that they have such policies to avoid “mistakes” and causing discourse in a metal tube.
Malik Malik Malik. Do some research before posting “it’s just a pin” nonsense, but given the history of your first name, it’s no wonder you don’t care about the Israeli cause. It goes against that cute little mythical book of yours that starts with a Q
So an Israel pin is ok ?
And if it is ok ….why not a Palestinian flag ?
Asking for a friend .
If you read the post, I already addressed it.
It is for the Israeli flag pin. Depending on the size of the pin. I assume the same would be the case for the Palestinian flag pin.
He hates his job and anyone who supports Israel. Actions speak louder than words. No compassion in that man.
I support Israel both by opposing atrocities and other barbarism conducted by the rogue Netanyahu regime and Hamas and by supporting an immediate (and belated) delivery of an independent Palestinian state — per international law — alongside Israel.
Are you sure it wasn’t a Jordanian flag? The flags of that region all look similar.
Jordanian flag has the white star, which I don’t see here.
I probably don’t have any objection to the message the FA is expressing, but let’s be honest… When have FAs on US carriers, even Delta, cared about company policies and dress standards? Policies are broken on nearly every flight. If you don’t like the pin, you really can just look away and ignore it.
Poor little tool. He has no idea what a fool he is. I suggest he ask Delta to arrange a pass so he can spend a few weeks in Gaza… He’d be dead.
As with everything else it’s the fundamentalism of the recently converted.
‘in the right’ and what is your evidence for that? just admit you’re a tool for the isnotreal genocidial propoganda team.
IF he spent a week in Gaza, he’d report how WELL he was treated and how families would give him their BEST food.
Have you seen the difference between Palestinian hostages after being held by the ITF and those after being held by Hamas? The Palestinians look like Cancer patients, while the isnotreal hostages look no worse for the wear.
What foolish propoganda from you, John.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-hostage-recounts-sexual-assault-gaza-captivity-nyt-2024-03-26/
Why is this a story???? Let’s have some helpful info on flight choices/service etc. If not shut down the blog.
I find this a fascinating issue and worthy of our discssion.
You are not in charge of the content on this blog.
Taking this Zionist blog off my reading list. Free Palestine
-a non Zio Jew
You must be new around here.
https://liveandletsfly.com/i-stand-with-israel/
Bye.
Good riddance.
Matt’s a wannabe colonizer. Too bad all the world travel hasn’t impacted his worldview. I know a lot of people like that – they’re usually white, male, privileged, and uneducated.
@ET: Such a predictable and shallow trope. I’ll borrow some words from The Atlantic:
The decolonization narrative has dehumanized Israelis to the extent that otherwise rational people excuse, deny, or support barbarity. It holds that Israel is an “imperialist-colonialist” force, that Israelis are “settler-colonialists,” and that Palestinians have a right to eliminate their oppressors. (On October 7, we all learned what that meant.) It casts Israelis as “white” or “white-adjacent” and Palestinians as “people of color.”
…Contrary to the decolonizing narrative, Gaza is not technically occupied by Israel—not in the usual sense of soldiers on the ground. Israel evacuated the Strip in 2005, removing its settlements. In 2007, Hamas seized power, killing its Fatah rivals in a short civil war. Hamas set up a one-party state that crushes Palestinian opposition within its territory, bans same-sex relationships, represses women, and openly espouses the killing of all Jews.
…In a further racist twist, Jews are now accused of the very crimes they themselves have suffered. Hence the constant claim of a “genocide” when no genocide has taken place or been intended. Israel, with Egypt, has imposed a blockade on Gaza since Hamas took over, and has periodically bombarded the Strip in retaliation for regular rocket attacks. After more than 4,000 rockets were fired by Hamas and its allies into Israel, the 2014 Gaza War resulted in more than 2,000 Palestinian deaths. [Thousands of] Palestinians, including many children, have died so far in this war, according to Hamas. This is a tragedy—but this is not a genocide, a word that has now been so devalued by its metaphorical abuse that it has become meaningless.
…At the heart of decolonization ideology is the categorization of all Israelis, historic and present, as “colonists.” This is simply wrong. Most Israelis are descended from people who migrated to the Holy Land from 1881 to 1949. They were not completely new to the region. The Jewish people ruled Judean kingdoms and prayed in the Jerusalem Temple for a thousand years, then were ever present there in smaller numbers for the next 2,000 years. In other words, Jews are indigenous in the Holy Land, and if one believes in the return of exiled people to their homeland, then the return of the Jews is exactly that. Even those who deny this history or regard it as irrelevant to modern times must acknowledge that Israel is now the home and only home of 9 million Israelis who have lived there for four, five, six generations.
…Even more preposterous than the “colonizer” label is the “whiteness” trope that is key to the decolonization ideology. Again: simply wrong. Israel has a large community of Ethiopian Jews, and about half of all Israelis—that is, about 5 million people—are Mizrahi, the descendants of Jews from Arab and Persian lands, people of the Middle East. They are neither “settlers” nor “colonialists” nor “white” Europeans at all but inhabitants of Baghdad and Cairo and Beirut for many centuries, even millennia, who were driven out after 1948.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231106123739/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/
Read. Learn.
Ah, a kapo. Fascinating.
Thanks! Now you’ve RUINED my whole day! I won’t be able to relax until I see a more recent comment by you. WHAT WILL I DO?
Would an Israeli flag pin or of any other country for that matter be allowed? If so, then the Palestinian flag should be as well. If not, then he should not wear it.
The best policy is no pins at all.
But there’s a difference between wearing an Israeli flag on flight to Tel Aviv to indicate you speak the language versus wearing an Israeli (or Palestinain) flag pin to express politcal solidairty.
How about when Israel is committing crimes against humanity? Am I expected to just roll over then?
If you’re an employee and your employer tells you to on company time, then yes.
The thing is airlines usually have a separate language speaker bar that goes below their wings and indicates they speak said language. I know for sure UA does, and I’m pretty sure DL does too.
I agree with your assertion that FAs should not be making political statements at work. But all the times I’ve seen an Israeli OR Palestinian flag on a FA (or pilot!), it’s been on a domestic flight on a non-speaker…clearly it’s about making a political statement rather than conveying that they are language qualified
I agree it is worthy of talking about and writing an article about. I think we should discuss whether this is okay?
What I don’t like is that the guy got doxxed by the StopAntisemitism group, which is just completely inappropriate. The group was also clearly trying to get him fired, which is just cruel. While it might have been an unintelligent choice, the bloke doesn’t deserve how he has been treated.
I’d love to see this guy being forced to serve a Hasidic Jew on his flight.
And to those “free speech” people whining about giving him a pass – how would you feel if your flight attendant wore an Israeli pin on their lapel? Would you be suggesting the same “it’s their choice” excuse? More than likely you’d be absolutely attempting to control your anger and frustration while pretending to be neutral about it. You know it as well as I do.
THERE IS NO DOUBLE STANDARD.
Many Hasidic Jews are not Zionists and don’t support Israel.
God bless this man.
From river to sea…..
I work for Delta in a customer facing environment and pins affiliated with terrorism shouldn’t be tolerated. We are a global air carrier that serves many cultures. Wearing a Palestinian flag pin is disrespectful, especially to Jewish and Israeli passengers that we provide service for. We fly to Israel. We do not fly to Palestine. Delta won’t allow an employee to wear a Confederate flag pin, and this is no different. I expect delta will add a clear
amendment to the pin policy very soon.
I also work for DL in a customer facing position and anybody is allowed to wear a flag pin. It is not against the rules. It’s a country’s flag. People are not their government. Americans should know that. Wearing a Palestinian flag doesn’t mean you support what happened October 7th. It means you support Palestine, or you’re Palestinian, or you’re an Arabic speaker, or a million other things. And you better believe DL is going to backtrack if they’re smart, especially with all the backlash they are facing over their stupid tweet.
You’re so wrong Rylie. Why don’t you try wearing a Palestinian flag pin and see what happens.
Even without the pin, his appearance just exudes warm and friendly doesn’t it? (sarc)
Some DEI hiring there.
DEI is “designed to make people of various backgrounds feel welcome and ensure they have support to perform to the fullest of their abilities in the workplace”.
The hatred of DEI stems from a fear of a “loss of privilege” and an insecurity over a lack of competency and of competitiveness on a personal, familial or tribal level. People need to put their big boy pants on and shed the loser mentality of hating on the inclusion of historically underrepresented minorities. But cowardly, lazy characters fear and hate a lot and just can’t get around to putting their big boy pants on, and so they seek shelter in the rabbit hole of “MAGA”/“white nationalism”.
China and India is going to have an easier time of eating us for breakfast because of all this hate toward minorities in our midst. But give it to MAGA types to want to make America more like Putin’s Russia.
“The hatred of DEI stems from a fear of a ‘loss of privilege’ and an insecurity over a lack of competency and of competitiveness on a personal, familial or tribal level.” You have accurately described a very small portion of anti-DEI sentiment. I doubt they’re in this space. First, DEI will often discriminate on race, sex, or national origin. The US Supreme Court has made it clear it does and is unconstitutional. Some very fine people I know think discrimination in favor of a member of an “underrepresented” group is appropriated. I would continue, but I doubt you’re open to considereding other viewpoints.
I wonder if it matters to this guy that LGBTQ people are subject to persecution and violence in Gaza? It might be of interest to him.
It’s possible to think it a travesty that some parts of the US have given rapists a de facto legal right to force rape victims to produce children for rapists while also opposing the idea of barbarically displacing all the people in/from those parts of the US.
Much the same for homophobia among Palestinian majority areas under Israeli domination.
This is an honest, legit question. Where in the US can a father (including a rapist) force a woman to bear a child? Obviously, there are states where abortion is not legal. Thus, the woman there, regardless of who the father is, cannot abort. We solved that issue in my state and protected abortion rights in our constitution. So, maybe I missed something in another state?
As a passenger, I don’t want to see or hear or think about your sexual preferences, protests, or politics, because I do not want to be annoyed or distracted and it is not the place to respond.
+1. The FA is there to ensure my safety so focus on work, wear no pins at all and follow corporate rules.
By his looks, he seems pretty gay to me (I´m totally ok with that), but I wonder if he knows how restricted his life would be in any Arabic conutry, such as the one he supports.
I made the comments I did because his Instagram makes clear he is gay. I don’t understand the cognitive dissonance of standing up for a people, even women and children, who would deny his right to exist.
What if he had a Ukraine pin?
Clear double standards in this country right now. As many of the comments here prove, if you wear an Israeli flag it’s ok, but not their enemies flag. I am nneither a Jew, nor am I Israeli, and as an American I should be able to choose either side. In this case I side with the Palestinians as the Israelis have been lying about the whole problem for 75 + years. The Israelis have also been a horrid ally and we should have dumped them long ago.
We’re not talking about passengers onboard or you in the public square. You can wear whatever pin you want. This is about an employer (Delta) who has told its employees (the FAs) not to wear such pins. HUGE difference.
What are the Israelis lying about. The US military and intelligence communities would disagree with you about Israel being a “horrid ally”
No pins and no religious symbols! That means no jewelry with a cross, star of David, crescent & star, or others.
In the great USA, free people are not required to check their religious or national affinities at the door in order to be employed or go to school.
If you support Israel don’t fly Delta, more room for me. Thanks
I don’t think Matt’s post is bigoted or too controversial (and I do love his acknowledgement that this stuff is sure to get clicks, LOL). It’s his own blog, and I see no issue with Matt making his own stance on the issue known, either. If any reader suggests passengers can just “look the other way” with respect to pins, likewise, you can choose to read his blog and give him clicks or not.
Personally, I find both sides completely f–ked, and this to be a conflict that can have no good or enduring outcome. Taking this sentiment further, show me a single conflict that wasn’t either caused directly by religious folks, or at least tangentially by one or both sides taking a perceived moral (i.e., “god-given”) high ground. If we could just stop justifying horrific behavior under the guise of appeasing your made-up sky daddy, we’d all be better off.
Back to pins – I’d like to propose a solution we can all rally around: FA’s should be able to wear any pin they like but only during PDB service, no? Granted, this particular staff is under the employ of Delta, but I can assure you this policy would be welcome in AA circles.
You don’t know much about the Soviet union, do you?
Enough to know how Russia uses Byzantine religious ideology to support their imperialist political crusades.
You are making a HUGE assumption. Since when is defending yourself a “crime against humanity”?
When you destroy a place in such a way as to end up with 500k people packed into a less than 4 square mile area after violently and repeatedly displacing 90+% of an entire population of over 2 million people in the course of several months. Talaat Pasha was less efficient with his ethnic cleaning campaign at the start of the Ottoman’s genocide of Armenians than the rogue Netanyahu regime has been with Palestinians since October 7th, 2023.
Defending yourself is not a crime against humanity, nor did I ever imply that it was. I never used the term, “crime against humanity.” However, we have reached the point in this conflict that we ought to be having a conversation about who is the aggressor.
All this is not my point though. In modern history, it’s hard to identify a conflict or aggression that was not a direct or indirect result of religious or religious-adjacent ideology. Okay, perhaps WWI and Vietnam. However, Nazi Germany – fanatical, so-called “Christians,” 9/11 – Islamist extremism, Syria, Yemen, Sudan – either a legacy or direct result of various forms of Islamist factions warring against one another, the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel – well, that displaced Muslim Palestinians. Could we have thought that would go well? Now the struggle to maintain an independent democratic Jewish state is at odds with the struggle to forge an independent democratic Palestinian state. Afghanistan, Iraq, India-Pakistan conflict, Bosnia-Serbia, Northern Ireland, I could go on, but I’m getting bored.
Bottom line – none of these conflicts would have come to fruition without conviction of the feeble-minded to mystic, made-up, hocus pocus.
Is he serving moldy chicken in that photo?
He should be allowed to wear the pin on his one way flight to Gaza. But wait. Gaza doesn’t have an airport. Tough luck for him. He should either be ejected from the flight at 35,000′ or fired. Either solution is fine.
Your espousal of criminal violence against this flight attendant over a national flag pin speaks to a poverty of character that is so very pitiful. It could also turn out to be very expensive for those subject to US jurisdiction to dox someone who ends up subject to illegal violence and/or other harm because of the doxing. Maybe Alex Jones can share his wealth of knowledge about how expensive things get when things end up in court in the US for putting a target on the backs of people with whom he took political disagreement and doxxed.
Delta should fire him. They’ve already clarified their position. He’s an tmokites, and is getting them in trouble. Fire him, if move him to done back office job where he can’t annoy customets.
Wow, I can believed in such era, where people can not expressed themselves. What is it we want crucify someone based on their belief and their political value.
People have trouble when others support terrorism…
He obviously has no clue, as even his sharp haircut and earring would spell a very short lifespan in Gaza. Just another clueless crusader. Given him a warning a let him decide his own future.
I would imagine his pronouns are they/them and he belongs to a group either called “gays for Gaza” or “queers for Palestine”
Or “Homos for Hamas”, or maybe “Fags for Fatah”, or quite possibly “Allah Ackbareback”
Here is a highly-reputed scholar of the genocide committed against Armenians talking about how the Ottoman Turks and the Turkish Republic’s ethnoationalists operated. The Turks claimed to be doing their military sweep and resettlement operations to seek permanent security in self-defense against security threats to their nation:
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-israel-genocide-gaza-war-biden/tnamp/
He should be reassigned to a non customer facing role. One that doesn’t involve passenger safety. He looks like he would become completely unglued in the event of something like an emergency evacuation.
Queer people just watch out instant honor killings of any queer people in gaza!
He broke the rules. Suspend him or fire him.
You’re such a bigot. Your “love is love” comment was not needed – as a queer man, I don’t need you to use pink washing to make it a crime to stand by Palestine.
You think you’d be able to live out and proud in Gaza?
Congrats on the clicks, Matthew! I can’t WAIT to find out which article had the most clicks this year 😀
It could be the one about how hotel security guards at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee killed an unarmed African-American father for going into the hotel to use the toilets and then blamed him for accidentally heading toward or into the ladies’ toilet — a mistake other people have done but not led to their being pounced upon by hotel security. The death of George Floyd’s was one state over and 4 years earlier, and we know how much attention that got then. This is another version of that killing but this time it’s the hotel operator’s security that committed homicide. And it is homicide in the eyes of the original examiners’ findings.
But I haven’t seen the Boarding Area blogs yet touch that hot topic that shows the risk for some people to try to use the hotel lobby bathrooms is not uniform for all of our compatriots.
I’m looking into this.
This flight attendant probably uses another pronouns, judging by the face and the general look. I suggest we send IT to Gaza. Let Hamas deal with it.
Yet another example of the blatant anti-LGBTQ+ dehumanization of “the other”. It’s no surprise that those who dehumanize LGBTQ+ compatriots as “the other” would tend to be more inclined to do so with other people too. And no amount of pink-washing is going to wipe away the dehumanization of the unarmed Palestinians under Israeli siege in Gaza. The IDF’s killings of Gaza’s women and children too weren’t done to make Gaza safe for LGBTQ+ Palestinians.
By the way, this “StopAntisemitism” group founder/cofounder is an interesting character. If you take her pre-2023 words about what Russia has done in Ukraine and put it in the Israeli-Palestinian context, she would be condemning what the rogue Netanyahu regime has done in Gaza. But hypocrisy comes easy for those who put tribalistic identity above human identity.
Darling, I’m gay. And the only “dehumanization of the unarmed Palestinians” happened because of Hamas. And yes, getting rid of Hamas will make Palestine safe for lesbians and gays in the region.
Also, no surprises that someone who defends Palestinians is pro-ruSSian, y’all love all kinds of terrorists.
ROTFLOL A few days ago you accused me of being anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian. Now you are accusing me of being pro-Putin? ROTFLOL
And now you claim to be gay. Maybe you mean you are gay in the non-LGBTQ+ meaning of the word “gay”, but it doesn’t matter either way. Thank you for the show, even as you remind me of that guy Pucci Galore.
You are a genocide supporter in the name of zionism. You support the killing of babies and land theft by the radical zionist regime.
And you apparently support the death and rape of Israelis?
You have such an uninformed view of the conflict, Alberto. Try to educate yourself.
I am well informed and educated and I am no biased as you do, even though I have jewish heritage (Tobías)
You are just a zionist supporter which makes you now a supporter of land theft and genocide. A supporter of 3 terrorists, Netanyahu, Gallant, Gvir plus all the rabbis that are calling for “complete annihilation and displament of Palestinians from Gaza and the rest of Palestine”. It is just pure colonialism supported by big bankers like the Rothschild family who supported the Balfour Declaration, and USA and UK. You are an anti-semite as many settlers who were born in different countries whose ancestors had nothing to do with semitic people, they are khazars converted to Judaism. So Israel is a colonial project full of anti-semites hating, murdering and stealing land from innocent Palestinians who are thrue semitic people. By the way, the zionist entity is now mass producing Hamas supporters in Palestine and elsewhere, what and irony. Just imagine that the terrorist zionist killed your wife, your sons and daughters, your parents, brothers and sisters or they incarcerated and tortured your family…of course they will do whatever to avenge them. Wake up! Even Haaretz News isn’t willing to support the narrative you are supporting, not at all.
So you are definitely a genocide supporter, a brainwashed zionist. Brainwashed because it is “convenient” for “your people”.
Can we try to separate the average Palestinian from Hamas? They have no more choice in their government than North Koreans, and the majority of Palestinians (who have had their lives shattered) are victims of Hamas. You can support both Palestine and Israel if you separate Palestinians from the awful government that they’ve been stuck with for decades.
Sure. I understand the difference and it is so sad that a new generation of men and women who hate Israel will beget more violence down the line. It is so sad that Hamas hides in classrooms and hospitals and refugee camps and willingly sacrifices women and children in order to increase outrage in the Arab world over Israel.
But ultimately if it was my wife or child who was abducted, I would kill every one of them if I had to to get them back…so the idea of the fog of war is alive and well.
You’re an awful person, Matthew, and no amount of others slobbering over your blatant hatred towards Arabs will change that fact. Whoever raised you should hang their heads in shame for what they’ve wrought on this world.
Hatred for Arabs? What foolishness you spout!
Matthew, if your wife and children were kidnapped, you do what you need to do. But revenge is no way to run countries. It only leads to more revenge, which then leads to even more revenge.
Israel has gotten their pound of flesh. Enough is enough. They can get rid of Hamas without killing all of the people in Palestine.
I’m not talking about revenge, I’m talking about rescue and self-defense.
I’ll leave revenge to God.
Oh wow you’re a c*nt
Israhell is ran by recognized terrorists like Ben Gvir and Smotrich. October 7th was an inside job to steal more land. The government is using your tax money to help Israhell kill children.
What a bunch of fools – both the author and the people writing these comments. According to international law the occupier does not have the right to defend itself if the occupied people attack back. Israel has illegal settlements are recognized by international law and so is the occupier. It’s like Ukraine attacking Russia and Russia saying we have a right to defend ourselves but in fact Russia is obviously the aggressor. At least this attendant had the balls to stand up for something full well knowing he may lose his job unlike these keyboard warriors as well as the author of this article – he knows the USA is in the back pocket of Israel and so he’s also protected when he lies and is blind to the truth.
What international law is that, Saad?
And Israel does not have settlements in Gaza…
Straight up bigotry and racism from you Mr. Klint. You associated the flag of Palestinians with a bunch of things that are irrelevant to the fact that the flag represents Palestinian people. Shows your bias. You support the Israeli flag you wrote. Do you also support the Palestinian flag? (I know you’re going to talk about Delta’s policy and why neither flag should be worn, but it’s clear you support one flag but not the other based on what you wrote here.)
I asked what it meant – and clearly it means different things to different people.
And yes, I support Israel over the terrorists who committed murder on 07 Oct 2023
Why does the pure existence of Palestine (a flag) is a trigger for you people? This says more about you than them.
As an American of Middle Eastern descent, the last thing I need are more years of Islamophobia while I travel. When symbols that represent a person’s heritage are instantaneously equated with being “scary”–particularly in the context of being *on a plane*–a lifetime of racism that conflates me with governments and extremists that have nothing to do with me pings hard.
Incidentally, Delta has struck out twice in recent months, with its move to make a Jewish passenger remove a “Jews for Ceasefire” shirt.
It’s a no-fly for me…but they probably prefer it that way.
You conflate “white supremacy” with the ability of a historically-marginalized indigenous people (the Jews) to defend themselves from slaughter by terrorist pigs who say they do not have a right to exist.
What a trash take disguised as analysis. Genocide cheerleading dressed up as a blog.
I don’t wish genocide on the people of Palestine. I wish them peace and prosperity. The blood of every dead woman and child is on the hands of Hamas. Do you support Hamas?
Delta has said the flight attendants were within the uniform policy, it allows people to wear national flags although it’s being changed to only the US flag effective July 15th. I think you should correct that.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/delta-apologizes-official-x-account-says-d-terrified-employees-palesti-rcna161401
The policy was present before – Delta has taken a fascinating approach to this out of fear.
You are truly letting your ass hang out with the ironic bigotry of this post. Did you for a moment consider he may be Palestinian, or simply… you know.. against the wholesale slaughter of children and denial of basic human dignity that’s been occurring for decades? Pls ffs stick to what you know. Geopolitics or even foundational empathy is not your game
Such a foolish comment from a fly-by-night visitor to this website.
Did you cheer on as Israelis were slaughtered on October 7th?
Talk about simplistic rantings…
enough with your free palestine lies. Free what exactly ?
THE WORLD IS FED UP OF SO CALLED PALESTINIANS AND THEIR LIES !
SAVAGES.
EVEN THE ARABS DO NOT WANT THEM, AND WHO’D WANT THE
BARBARIANS OF GAZA . YOU ARE NOW PAYING FOR 7TH OCTOBER.
YOU BURNED PEOPLE ALIVE AND CELEBRATED. YES THE INNOCENT CIVILLIANS OF GAZA HUNTED PEOPLE DOWN AND HELPED HAMAS SLAUGHTER PEOPLE
what have the so called palestinians done for humanity. You cunningly receive billions of donation money and what do you do with it ? You slaughter human beings . You slaughter your own daughters in the name of honor killings.
What Savages. What a horroble people.
I ordered both pins from Amazon. The Israeli pin and the Palestinian pin. I’ll wear them as I please and no one can stop me. I’m seriously tired of both sides!
The hypocrisy is unsurprisingly amazing. He supports a genocidal entity and then writes about not supporting either side… oxymoron! I guess your rooting for annihilating another 15k children, such a courageous patron to society…